Posted on 03/21/2013 4:03:31 PM PDT by AuntB
Billionaire Bill Gates is a vegetarian who has become a vocal advocate for a plant-based diet. Gates says a vegetarian diet is healthier and more environmentally friendly than a meat-based diet, and notes that the production of meat is responsible for over half the greenhouse gas emissions in the world.
"[Moving toward a vegetarian diet is] important too in light of the environmental impacts of large-scale meat and dairy production, with livestock estimated to produce nearly 51% of the world’s greenhouse gases," Gates blogged on Mashable March 21.
"The global population is on track to reach nine billion by 2050. What are all those people going to eat? With billions of people adding more animal protein to their diets — meat consumption is expected to double by 2050 — it seems clear that arable land for raising livestock won’t be able to keep up."
Gates, the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, regularly blogs about the future of food on his website, Gates Notes.
Bill says there are great innovations taking place in food production that can create delicious plant-based meat substitutes that mimic the taste and texture of meat.
Gates, 57, says the innovations can also help with hunger-relief efforts in poor countries. In 2012, the Gates Foundation announced plans to invest in genetically-modified agriculture to combat world hunger.
While the move has been criticized by some, Gates insists a plant-based diet is the cornerstone of superior health, hunger relief, and is better for the environment.
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“Lets all eat cabbage instead of beef - that will save the planet.”
What about beans?
Oh, wait a minute.....gas....ummm...never mind.
Maybe Bill Gates should ask Linda McCartney how is that vegetarian lifestyle helped her.
ooo Thank you for reminding me to take out the Corn Beef. Whenever they are in sale I buy a few and put in freezer.
People should have the right to eat whatever they want to eat just like Michelle stuffing her wide butt. As for me, I don’t know why but I am getting tired of meat but then the craving for meat comes back. So for a few weeks I cook up some non-meat meals then gradually go back to meat. then repeat and rinse =)
And while we are at it, kill all those Wildabeast and Cape Buffalo in Africa too since they fart just as much or more than Elsie The Cow ever did.
For some amazing reason which only Bill Gates can comprehend, when cows take carbon in from the existing environment by eating vegetation and put it back out into the existing environment a few hours later, while also making lots of good food for us to eat, they are bad. But if it a Government subsidized ethanol refinery takes that same vegetation and turns it into fuel, it's somehow a good thing.
Excellent point.
Bill, maybe you had better check the formulae in your Excel spreadsheet.
Termites are ahead of domestic livestock as the leading producers of greenhouse gas.
"termites were blamed for at least part of the increase, with estimates ranging from less than 5 per cent to more than 40 per cent of the total annual global methane production."
" The release of methane into the atmosphere by cattle and other large grazing mammals is estimated to account for 12 to 17% of the total global methane release."
Vegetarians pump out a lot of stinking bottom gas!
Another billionaire douche bag. eat the rich.
SO, Bill Gates dies and goes to the pearly gates. Saint Peter stands there stoically. Bill asks him, “Well, heaven or hell?” Saint Peter reaches below his high podium and pulls out a very large hour-glass, turns it over, sets it down and walks away.
When my mother was in her final days in hospice care, she would look up occasionally and say 'Mommy, I see you." That's all she ever said by that point.
Her mother had died when she was only 8 years old, -- 75 years eariler -- but the look on my mother's face told me she really did see her mother.
I like to think that there was a wonderful reunion that day. They had a lot of catching up to do.
Come on take the leap to 8.
Everyone should experience the joy of having to navigate around in a junior high school girls phone.
Micromush produces 51 % of the World’s computer crashes.
I never realized that Gates was such a stupid bastard until now. Thanks for the post, it explains a lot.
Methane accounts for about the grand total of 0.36% of all greenhouse gases. Gates is a good thief and a good marketing guy. Not so hefty on the intellect evidently.
Probably justifies releasing malarial mosquitos in an auditorium full of people.
Thanks AuntB.
this is a guy who would happily sterilize the world
I kinda got a sense of that while searching for images of the guy. I guess he's been a huge supporter of some sort of vaccine(?)
guess he isn’t aware of the major methane problem from rotting vegetation in traditional rice paddy cultivation.
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